steve clemens is washington editor at large for "the atlantic." also with the new america foundation. steve, what's amazing about this trip and thinking about the peace process and what we went through earlier, the president was determined. and believed, i think, some of his own ret eerrati erhetoric ts going to be able to be a game changer. here we are in the second term. he said he wasn't going to wait until the second term for peace process. it didn't work. there's a lot of reasons. one of the bigger ones is terrible relations with the israeli government. >> the president came in. he wanted to change the game. he wanted to be the nixon, frankly, who changed the way global gravity worked. he felt solidly all of the problems the united states was facing at that time, whether it was in afghanistan, whether it was in the broad middle east and the real disdain many arabs had for the united states in the wake of the gulf war, he thought if we could fix this problem, many of the other problems would be fixed. and that proved to be when he went head to